Anything with "Nastassja Kinski" in it deserves my attention!
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Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread
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Thank-you, Chris... it always means a lot to me from you.
My snakes will start slithering out of the Renderosity store on the 19th.
... and here's a sneak peek for what I'll have for July... all critically endangered butterflies
... and here's a sneak peek for what I'll have for July... all critically endangered butterflies
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SorryHow am I supposed to collect all of your nature products if you keep releasing new ones?
... besides Butterflies v4 in July, I'm doing Snakes v2 for August
Since my snakes appear to have some popularity at Rendo, I've decided to do a Volume 2 and here's what I've been selected:
- Red-bellied Black Snake (venomous, Australia)
- Broad-banded Copperhead (venomous, central USA)
- Red-milk (King) Snake (non-venomous, eastern North America)
- Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (venomous, southern California and Baja-- the one that bit me)
- Banded Pit Viper (venomous, SE Asia)
- Eyelash Viper (venomous, Central and northern South America)
- Red-tailed Boa (Constrictor) (non-venomous, South America)
- Common Pipe Snake (non-venomous, SE Asia)
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For anyone who hasn't seen this yet... a freebie for Snakes v1 just went live at Renderosity
A couple butterflies v4 renders...
Mitchell's Satyr Butterfly and Taylor's Checkerspot. Both are endangered.
Mitchell's Satyr Butterfly and Taylor's Checkerspot. Both are endangered.
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a few more...
all endangered... the El Segundo Blue (California), the Miami Blue (Florida) and the Wolkberg Zulu Butterfly (of South Africa)
all endangered... the El Segundo Blue (California), the Miami Blue (Florida) and the Wolkberg Zulu Butterfly (of South Africa)
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Another endangered butterfly, the Macedonian Grayling...
plus the first render from my second volume of snakes-- in this image, the Eyelash pit viper (the pose and branch will be included in the set).
This species is endemic to Columbia in South America. It has adapted to a nearly completely arboreal lifestyle, possessing a strong, prehensile tail with which it secures itself around tree limbs, often coiled into a tight bundle during the day, as the species is primarily nocturnal. After dark, the eyelash viper awakens and awaits the presence of small, tree-dwelling animals that may cross its path such as rodents, bats, tree frogs, birds and lizards (anoles, geckos, and juvenile iguanas).
The eyelash viper is not known to be an aggressive snake towards humans, and is likely to be avoidant of creatures larger than itself, but will not hesitate to strike if repeatedly harassed. Snakebites inflicted on humans are characterized by pain, edema, and ecchymosis at the site of the bite, rarely with blisters, local necrosis, or defibrination. In some cases, systemic alterations such as coagulopathy and acute renal failure have been reported.
plus the first render from my second volume of snakes-- in this image, the Eyelash pit viper (the pose and branch will be included in the set).
This species is endemic to Columbia in South America. It has adapted to a nearly completely arboreal lifestyle, possessing a strong, prehensile tail with which it secures itself around tree limbs, often coiled into a tight bundle during the day, as the species is primarily nocturnal. After dark, the eyelash viper awakens and awaits the presence of small, tree-dwelling animals that may cross its path such as rodents, bats, tree frogs, birds and lizards (anoles, geckos, and juvenile iguanas).
The eyelash viper is not known to be an aggressive snake towards humans, and is likely to be avoidant of creatures larger than itself, but will not hesitate to strike if repeatedly harassed. Snakebites inflicted on humans are characterized by pain, edema, and ecchymosis at the site of the bite, rarely with blisters, local necrosis, or defibrination. In some cases, systemic alterations such as coagulopathy and acute renal failure have been reported.
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Well, I seem to be getting myself into more trouble... I wanted to do a render of the Karner Blue Butterfly but its host plant is Lupine and it appears there is none available in DS or Poser format. I decided that needed to be remedied, so have started an impromptu project mirroring my Hummingbird Garden set. "Butterfly Garden" will have a few species/variants of lupine, sage and buckwheat. Here's my first Silver Bush Lupine...
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Dances with Bees
!One WOW! wasn't enough! These Silver Bush Lupines are absolutely outstanding!
Here's another image of the lupine varieties and a render of my white sage (Salvia apiana)
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Dances with Bees
The White Sage is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
The endangered Butterflies set is out. I'll probably have the second volume of snakes out towards the end of the month and my "Butterfly Garden" project out in August.
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This model is kind of a monster (weighing in at about 450K polygons because of its flower clusters), but here's my Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat (in final stage bloom (the white flowers turn to a rust color)....
I wasn't 100% happy with the flower clusters on my buckwheat (there are actually none, just buds, on the image above), so yesterday and this morning I figured out a good way to create flowers with stamens that aren't going to push my model into prohibitive polygon counts. Each flower is 11 polygons-- it's 2 square funnels laid on top of each other for petals and a triangle funnel for the stamens-- the transparency and bump maps give it all the detail. The flower petals are white/pink with a faint red outline. As they dry up, they turn rust red. I'll have two, maybe three materials for this plant (full bloom, spent flowers and maybe it budding before bloom). Here's a screenshot of my work so far...
